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They don't pose a greater threat per se, but they are hip and people want those "funny Flash apps on their desktop", which makes it easy to do and distribute an evil app collecting private data. People are less aware of the potential risk. AIR and others have a File API. It's certainly not possible to format a drive, but it sure is possible to steal and/or delete private informations. [i]Especially if the File API doesn't require a user interaction to grant access to this or that folder[/i]. These applications are easy to write, hip, have file access and unrestricted web access. They can make for a lovely trojan. [edit_after_reading_your_link] Holy moly! so it's true, AIR do/did not require user interaction to get file access. Plain scary. Luckily Adobe seems to be moving towards a sandbox approach. Phewww. [/edit_after_reading_your_link] [url=http://www.p01.org/][img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_teapot.png[/img][/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2185]poi[/url] on 01-12-2008 18:22)[/small]
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